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» On November 15, 2014, in his first public appearance in two years, Tim
spoke on the topic of 1980s Chicago poetry in the "Vernacular Language" panel
at the New York Metro American Studies Association annual conference held at Stella
& Charles Guttman Community College in New York City.

» In October 2013, a YouTube video surfaced of
Tim reading from Second Acts at WORD in Brooklyn, recorded on April 21,
2011.

» In September 2013, Tim served as judge of the Ninth Annual Gival
Press Novel Award, selecting Ghost Horse by Thomas H. McNeely, who
received $3,000 and publication of the winning novel.

» On June 28, 2012, Tim moderated the panel "How Chicago Invented
Slam/Spoken Word Poetry in the 1980s" at the Poetry and
Poetics of the 1980s conference at the University of Maine. Tara Betts,
Kurt Heintz, and Paul McComas also appeared. View photos here.

» On March 3, 2012, Tim moderated the panel "Present at the Creation:
The Chicago Poetry Revolution of the 1980s and 1990s" at the AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair in
Chicago. Luis J. Rodriguez, Sharon Mesmer, Kurt Heintz, and Paul McComas also
appeared. Listen to an audio recording here.

» Tim concluded his Second Acts promotional tour on October 19,
2011 with a reading at the UMass-Boston Bookstore.

» From August 22 to 26, 2011, Tim visited Seattle for the first time in
27 years (after a 1984 stint in graduate school at Washington State
University), appearing on August 23 in a reading at Elliott Bay Book Company. View photos
here.

» On July 19, 20, and 21, 2011, in a flurry of appearances with
long-time colleague Paul McComas, Tim read at a benefit for RAINN in Washington, D.C., at the Ames Free Library in North Easton,
Mass., and at the celebrated Drunken! Careening! Writers! series at KGB Bar in NYC. View photos here.

» From April 28 to May 5, 2011, Tim traveled 2,600 miles on the
Midwestern leg of his Second Acts book tour, appearing in Cleveland,
St. Louis, Milwaukee, and four events in Chicago. View photos here
and a video here.

» Tim appeared in readings with long-time colleague Paul McComas on
April 21 and 22, 2011, at WORD in
Brooklyn and Cornelia Street
Cafe in NYC. View photos here.

» On March 30, 2011, Tim appeared on the panel "NBCC Celebrates Small Press Month" with
John Reed, John Madera, John Deming, and moderator Barbara Hoffert (Library
Journal) at the New York
University Bookstore in NYC. Listen to the podcast here.

» Tim appeared on February 11, 2011, with poets M.L. Liebler and Barry
Wallenstein at The Catholic Worker
Weekly Roundtable and Fellowship at Maryhouse in NYC, where he discussed
working-class literature.

» Tim appeared with his fellow Gival Press authors Rich Murphy, John
Domini, David Winner, Thad Rutkowski, and Lowell Mick White on February 4 and
6, 2011, in readings at the Dupont Hotel Bar in Washington, D.C., and KGB Bar in NYC.

» On February 3, 2011, Tim moderated the panel "Tearing Down the
Town/Gown Divide" at the 2011 AWP
Annual Conference and Bookfair in Washington, D.C. Gary Glazner, Kevin Smokler,
April Naoko Heck, and John Domini also appeared.

» Tim was guest host of the "Crescent City Roadhouse" radio show on WFDU-FM, sharing some of his favorite Cajun and
zydeco music, on January 28, 2011.

» Second Actswon
the 2010 London Book Festival
Award in the category of General Fiction. The Festival's annual competition
honors independent-press and self-published books "worthy of further attention
from the international publishing community."

» On December 28, 2010, Tim returned to Chicago, Illinois, for a reading
at The Bourgeois Pig, sponsored by Tall Grass Writers
Guild.

» In September 2010, Tim served as judge of the Sixth
Annual Gival Press Novel Award, selecting Gone by Sundown by Peter
Leach, who received $3,000 and publication of the winning novel.

» On November 4, 2010, Tim appeared in Detroit, Mich. at "Detroit
Tonight Live," hosted by M.L. Liebler and sponsored by Poets & Writers. Singer/songwriter Peter
Lewis (formerly of Moby Grape) and Brian Smith also appeared.

» On October 16, 2010, Tim spoke on the panel "The Changing World of
Publishing" with Sheila DeChantal, Andrew Ervin, Jeff Kamin, Steph Opitz, and
moderator Kevin Smokler at the Twin
Cities Book Festival in Minneapolis.

» On September 11, 2010, Tim appeared at Lit Crawl NYC with his NBCC colleagues in "Revise and Recant,"
where he issued a tongue-in-cheek apology for his reviewing errors.